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Building futures through LEGOs
Building Futures Through LEGOs

Since this year’s theme is water, the students had to create autonomous robots that would move through LEGO field models and accomplish tasks such as collecting rain water, helping flowers grow, and putting out fires.

Building futures through LEGOs

In the FIRST LEGO League tournament, middle school teams mentored by Penn Engineering students worked to design and build robots related to the theme of water.

Ali Sundermier

These robot teams will be intelligent, adaptive, and resilient

These robot teams will be intelligent, adaptive, and resilient

The United States Army Research Laboratory awarded the School of Engineering and Applied Science a five-year, $27 million grant to develop new methods of creating autonomous, intelligent, and resilient teams of robots.

Evan Lerner , Ali Sundermier

These small robots are inspired by origami
Sung is developing design software to enable people without an engineering background to create custom origami robots that can move on the ground. The tool, called Interactive Robogami, is based on a database of robot parts which users can combine together like a “virtual Lego set.”

Sung is developing design software to enable people without an engineering background to create custom origami robots that can move on the ground. The tool, called Interactive Robogami, is based on a database of robot parts which users can combine together like a “virtual Lego set.”

These small robots are inspired by origami

Through origami-inspired engineering, one researcher hopes to not only create rapidly fabricable robots, but also build intuitive design software that enables others who may not be trained in engineering to create their own personalized robots.

Ali Sundermier

Teaching Robots to ‘Feel with Their Eyes’

Teaching Robots to ‘Feel with Their Eyes’

An engineering Ph.D. student is leading a project that builds up a database of surfaces so that robots may better identify what objects are made of and how to handle them.

Ali Sundermier

Exploring new worlds: Penn students design an ice drilling robot for Mars
Penn Students Design an Ice Drilling Robot for Mars

Penn Engineering students Wanda Lipps, Gautam Nagaraj, and Michael Gromis, all members of the Mars Water Horizons team, use a robot they built to drill through a container of soil, clay and ice. The goal is to create something that will be able to extract ice from the surface of Mars, then melt and filter it into drinkable water that could also be used as rocket fuel.

Exploring new worlds: Penn students design an ice drilling robot for Mars

The team’s robot is designed to drill through soil on Mars, extract ice and clay, and then melt the ice and filter it into drinkable water.

Ali Sundermier

Penn Engineering Offers an Online MicroMasters in Robotics

Penn Engineering Offers an Online MicroMasters in Robotics

Beginning in April, Penn Engineering and the GRASP Laboratory will offer a new series of online courses in robotics as part of edX’s “MicroMasters” program.

Evan Lerner

Teachers get a crash course in robotics
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Teachers get a crash course in robotics

For six weeks during her summer vacation, Henry C. Lea School’s Latoya Landfair spent hours each day in Penn’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory. Studying alongside nine other School District of Philadelphia middle school teachers, Landfair was able to learn about computer vision—a field she plans to introduce to her seventh-grade math students this year.

Lauren Hertzler